Agnes in Red Dress
Agnes in Red Dress is a striking large-scale photograph by British artist Richard Learoyd, known for his use of a room-sized camera obscura to produce images of extraordinary depth and luminosity. The work captures the subject Agnes in a vivid red dress, rendered with an almost painterly intensity through Learoyd's signature process of unique dye destruction printing. Flush-mounted to enhance its smooth, immersive surface, the piece exists as a singular, unrepeatable object, blurring the boundary between photography and traditional portraiture.
- Medium
- Unique dye destruction print, flush-mounted.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
October 1, 2014
Artists in conversation
Rineke Dijkstra
Dutch · b. 1959
Dijkstra creates large format portrait photographs with an intimate yet monumental quality, focusing on single female subjects rendered with extraordinary psychological depth and clarity. Her work shares Learoyd's commitment to capturing the singular presence of a specific individual with painterly stillness and emotional intensity.
Craigie Horsfield
British · b. 1949
Horsfield produces large scale figurative photographs characterized by rich tonal depth, slow deliberate process, and an almost Old Master painterly quality that closely mirrors Learoyd's aesthetic approach. His intimate portraits of real individuals share the same sense of temporal weight and luminous physical presence found in Agnes in Red Dress.
Thomas Ruff
German · b. 1958
Ruff's large format portrait series presents subjects with immersive scale and meticulous surface detail, turning photographic portraiture into objects of singular visual and material intensity. His exploration of photography as a unique physical object and his unflinching figurative directness closely parallel Learoyd's practice.
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